Posted on 10/18/2021 10:29:42 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Basically, it comes down to properly defining property rights.
In the case of a negative externality such as pollution, the property right to pollute could be awarded to the polluter, and the victim of the pollution would have to offer to pay to get the polluter to reduce their output. Alternatively, the property right to clean air/water/whatever else is being polluted, could be awarded to the victim, so the polluter would have to offer to pay the victim to be allowed to pollute.
If a gas exhaled from your mouth is a pollutant, do we stop breathing?
(Short answer from Leftists: “That is the whole point, you dolt!”)
The left always accuse people of being deniers but they deny the Sun (which is 99.86% of the mass in our solar system and responsible for all energy, weather and climate. Democrats also failed to get ‘defund the police’ to take hold so their new risky scheme to get rid of cops (and military) who won’t go communist is to take their jobs another way. I watched a video of a WA State trooper using his last sign-off to send a message to the Governor there, and you can check it out top of page at Whatfinger News in crawler link. The people of WA had the chance to send Inslee a message too but instead they reelected him to a third term last year. Man is just a tiny part of that remaining 0.14%, but the left says math is racist.
From the 1970’s on we’ve had overpopulation, new ice age, acid rain, ozone hole, global warming and climate change. None of them real. All of them designed to give power to the left (who are all Sun deniers).
A quote from Kelly to Ryan, The Office, S4E15 ‘Night Out’.
1977 episode featuring that Spock guy.
‘In Search Of... The Coming Ice Age’ (search YT for it)
MANY articles/books about same.
Acid rain was real. The sulfur dioxide that came out of the smoke stacks of coal plants in OH & PA mixed with water in the atmosphere and then came down in places like the Adirondack Mountains in upstate NY. The PH raised to the point that fish and other marine creatures could not survive in the water.
I used to own a swimming pool at my former house. In the summer we would get thunderstorms that would dump 1-2” of rain in a short period. It always screwed up the PH in my pool because of the crap that the rain washed out of the atmosphere into my 22,000 gallon cement pond. After every big thunderstorm, I needed to buy chemicals at the pool store to readjust the PH.
The lie was that the lakes would be forever dead. This was not the case as we know today. They forced the coal fired power plants to put scrubbers on their smoke stacks that removed the sulfur. Eventually, the PH of the lakes went back down and the fish came back.
This is similar to the fact that in the 1950s & 1960s the manufacturing plants in MI, OH, NY & Canada dumped all sorts of crap into Lake Erie. Bethlehem Steel on the lake shore just south of Buffalo used to dump the slag into the lake every night. The river in Cleveland, OH was so polluted it caught on fire. The EPA eventually made these industries stop doing these practices. Now Lake Erie is one of the best Muskie hunting(fishing) places in the world.
How’s the acid rain doing? Are there any trees left?
I keep having flashbacks, and, wait, what? ;^)
Back in the 1970s we were told that fossil fuels would run dry in 30 years and we were entering an ice age. There are always so many pessimistic prophesiers that make a living off horrific prophesies. No one seems to talk about pollution any more, all they do is moan and groan, on and on about climate change. Those of us paying attention in grade school, back a few decades ago, remember being taught that the planet’s climate is always changing and cycling. It’s nature. However, pollution always needs cleaning up, yet not allowing people to survive with heated or cooled homes, electricity for daily living and being able to drive their vehicle to work, school or for work, is societal destruction, as well as selfish and self-serving of those who demand it. If those people want to live a primitive lifestyle, there are lots of places in the world they can go and do so, without damaging the lives of the rest of us.
I grew up in the Pittsburgh area. When I was a kid the mills would blow out their stacks at night when nobody was paying attention. In the morning everything would be coated in black dust. My dad, who worked there, said it looked like money to him.
LOL
He was right.
In Lackawana,NY home of Bethlehem Steel south of Buffalo the whole area had a brown tinge to it.
Everyone who valued their automobile and parked it outside would cover it. If not the acid would eat away at the paint job.
Between that and the rock salt they used on the roads cars would just rust away in western NY.
That is the stupidest thing I ever read
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